WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

The Care Certificate course is mandatory for all care workers, healthcare assistants and social care support workers:-

  • Who are new to the workplace or new to care (within first 12 weeks)
  • And existing staff requiring refresher training annually

WHY DO YOU NEED THIS COURSE?

Following the recommendations of the Cavendish Report 2013, The Care Certificate was introduced to:-

  • Build on and replace the Common Induction Standards (CIS) and National Minimum Training Standards (NMTS)
  • Set out specific learning outcomes, competences and standards that will ensure caring and compassionate quality of care
  • The Care Certificate delivers public and CQC confidence in the provision of healthcare services and sets out a benchmark to which standards can be assessed

OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

  • Understand key legislation pertaining to health and social care
  • Understand the key topics and their relevance to providing the best care and support
  • Know how to put theory into practice
  • Recognise CQC key lines of enquiry and relate to each key topic
  • Improve their understanding of outstanding care and support within their day to day work

COURSE CONTENT

  • Understand Your Role
  • Your Personal Development
  • Duty of Care
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Work in a Person Centred Way
  • Communication
  • Privacy and Dignity, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards
  • Fluids and Nutrition
  • Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
  • Safeguarding Adults
  • Safeguarding Children
  • Basic Life Support
  • Health and Safety
  • Handling Information (Including GDPR and Caldicott Principles)
  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Plus Handling Medication and moving, handling and positioning

The training day  consists of theory, practical, video, discussion and Q&A sessions with real life case studies  to provide delegates with effective frame of reference for their line of work

OVERALL COURSE BENEFITS

There are two parts to the Care Certificate:-

  • Expert Training and competencies checks
  • Demonstrating competence at work (Shadowing experienced/competent colleague on the job and or via observations from leader/manager)

We’re here to provide the training part – our high impact classroom training course can be delivered by our experts at your place of work OR you can attend an open course here at Regent House.

Our ‘Care Certificate Training Classroom Course’ delivers the knowledge care workers, healthcare assistants and social care workers need to help them towards achieving the Care

Delegates will be issued with a Care Certificate workbook on the day of training and you will record knowledge gained on the assessments pages.

Delegates will then be issued with your own Care Certificate to take to their employer.

This is a full day face to face training course, covering each of the care standards (Skills for Care 2015), plus recommended key areas as appropriate for organisational needs and requirements. Each delegate completes an assessment workbook which is aligned to the standards and upon successful completion is awarded a care certificate which lasts for a period of twelve months. Delegates need to complete this training annually.

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